Corporate Leadership-To Much Higher Levels

Citizen lead action is popping up all over the world. Between Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour to Peter Gabriel's vision for The Elders launched by Nelson Mandela, there is growing action to shift the crash course humanity has set for itself. While some are in denial and others keep saying 'its not our fault' the reality is that the global changes have implications for humanity and implications on business.

Much of business powers on - business as usual - struggling with the emotional implications on their employees without recognizing that, as part of a much larger picture, they are power behind the solution.

Many people ask why it takes cancer or some kind of life altering experience to shift the mindset to see and create a different life. The same question is relevant to business.

Shift in Action, launched by the Institute for Noetic Science names 2008 as the year for going deep...deeper into the self and ultimately to tap into the creative force and source of solutions. Jim Garrison from www.wisdomuniversity.org stated that the technology we need to manage ourselves is here. We simply can't see it. Stiff mindsets stand in the way. Fit minds are flexible. They can widen to take in the big picture and narrow down to see the minute nuances that make or break successful navigation. With fit minds comes vision and capacity to see ahead.

That would help right now. The notion that emotion is touchy-feely is so worn out it does not qualify to be antique or any form of wisdom. Emotion is energy and energy powers leadership. Now, we are on the podium of radical change that is happening so quietly few but the most attentive and attuned can sense it. These are now the more advanced leadership skills that are required to shift company culture, and hence radical innovation, to much higher levels. The cross roads is where personal spirit meets business and takes off. We are the leaders we have been waiting for. Oh yeah.... Let Er Buck